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Ancient Laws

A Bryson Coventry Thriller

By: Jim Michael Hansen

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Ancient Laws

A Bryson Coventry Thriller

By: Jim Michael Hansen

Denver homicide detective Bryson Coventry tracks a killer to Paris, expecting a dangeous but straightforward hunt. What he doesn't foresee is that he and a strikingly beautiful French detective would be pulled into a deadly game--a game that would stretch from Paris to Cairo to the Valley of the Kings; a game rooted in ancient tombs, archeological murders and lost treasures; a game that started thousands of years ago but is not over yet.

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379

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Dark Sky Publishing, Inc.

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0976924323

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9780976924326

Visions of the Land

Science, Literature, and the American Environment from the Era of Exploration to the Age of Ec

By: Michael A. Bryson

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Visions of the Land

Science, Literature, and the American Environment from the Era of Exploration to the Age of Ec

By: Michael A. Bryson

Bryson (humanities, Evelyn T. Stone U. College, Roosevelt U.) discusses the connections between the representation of nature and the practice of science in America from the 1840s to the 1960s, as presented in the texts of seven American writers: John Charles Fremont, Richard Byrd, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Wesley Powell, Susan Cooper, Rachel Carson, and Loren Eiseley. The author considers how various scientific perspectives have influenced environmental attitudes; how selected writers of varied backgrounds, scientific training, and geographic experience have represented nature through a variety of natural sciences; and the relations among science, nature, language, and the human community. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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251

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University of Virginia Press

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0813921066

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9780813921068

The Wiley Handbook of Eating Disorders

By: Linda Smolak,Michael P. Levine

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The Wiley Handbook of Eating Disorders

By: Linda Smolak,Michael P. Levine

This groundbreaking two-volume handbook provides a comprehensive collection of evidence-based analyses of the causes, treatment, and prevention of eating disorders. A two-volume handbook featuring contributions from an international group of experts, and edited by two of the leading authorities on eating disorders and body image research Presents comprehensive coverage of eating disorders, including their history, etiological factors, diagnosis, assessment, prevention, and treatment Tackles controversies and previously unanswered questions in the field Includes coverage of DSM-5 and suggestions for further research at the end of each chapter 2 Volumes

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118573943

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9781118573945

Work Stress

The Making of a Modern Epidemic

By: Wainwright, David,Calnan, Michael

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Work Stress

The Making of a Modern Epidemic

By: Wainwright, David,Calnan, Michael

We are facing an epidemic of work stress. This study combines a critique of the scientific evidence relating to work stress, with an account of the social, historical and cultural changes that produced this phenomenon.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335207073

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9780335207077

A Clinical Handbook in Adolescent Medicine

A Guide for Health Professionals who Work with Adolescents and Young Adults

By: Kate Steinbeck,Michael R. Kohn

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A Clinical Handbook in Adolescent Medicine

A Guide for Health Professionals who Work with Adolescents and Young Adults

By: Kate Steinbeck,Michael R. Kohn

This clinical handbook is a valuable resource for any health professional who works with adolescents and young adults, whether in paediatric or adult acute care facilities or in the community. As a handbook it provides ready access to practical, clinically relevant and youth specific information.This clinical handbook fills a clear gap, as most adolescent texts are primarily directed at paediatricians. This handbook extends its scope beyond paediatrics for three important reasons. First, many adolescents are managed by adult trained clinicians who have not had much exposure to or training in adolescent health. Secondly, the important health conditions of adolescents are often the important health conditions in young adults. Thirdly, with increased survival rates in chronic illness over the last two to three decades, it is becoming essential that clinicians in adult health care are able to assess and manage conditions that have their origins in childhood.Each chapter is written by an expert in their field with a highly practical approach. The information is relevant and straightforward, with the aim of enhancing clinical skills.

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778

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World Scientific

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9814374040

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9789814374040

Great Smoky Mountains Folklife

By: Michael Ann Williams

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Great Smoky Mountains Folklife

By: Michael Ann Williams

The Great Smoky Mountains, at the border of eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina, are among the highest peaks of the southern Appalachian chain. Although this area shares much with the cultural traditions of all southern Appalachia, the folklife here has been uniquely shaped by historical events, including the Cherokee Removal of the 1830s and the creation of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park a century later. This book surveying the rich folklife of this special place in the American South offers a view of the culture as it has been defined and changed by scholars, missionaries, the federal government, tourists, and people of the region themselves. Here is an overview of the history of a beautiful landscape, one that examines the character typified by its early settlers, by the displacement of the people, and by the manner in which the folklife was discovered and defined during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Here also is an examination of various folk traditions and a study of how they have changed and evolved.

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236

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1628468963

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9781628468960

A Discriminative Approach to Bayesian Filtering with Applications to Human Neural Decoding

By: Michael C. Burkhart

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A Discriminative Approach to Bayesian Filtering with Applications to Human Neural Decoding

By: Michael C. Burkhart

Given a stationary state-space model that relates a sequence of hidden states and corresponding measurements or observations, Bayesian filtering provides a principled statistical framework for inferring the posterior distribution of the current state given all measurements up to the present time. For example, the Apollo lunar module implemented a Kalman filter to infer its location from a sequence of earth-based radar measurements and land safely on the moon. To perform Bayesian filtering, we require a measurement model that describes the conditional distribution of each observation given state. The Kalman filter takes this measurement model to be linear, Gaussian. Here we show how a nonlinear, Gaussian approximation to the distribution of state given observation can be used in conjunction with Bayes’ rule to build a nonlinear, non-Gaussian measurement model. The resulting approach, called the Discriminative Kalman Filter (DKF), retains fast closed-form updates for the posterior. We argue there are many cases where the distribution of state given measurement is better-approximated as Gaussian, especially when the dimensionality of measurements far exceeds that of states and the Bernstein—von Mises theorem applies. Online neural decoding for brain-computer interfaces provides a motivating example, where filtering incorporates increasingly detailed measurements of neural activity to provide users control over external devices. Within the BrainGate2 clinical trial, the DKF successfully enabled three volunteers with quadriplegia to control an on-screen cursor in real-time using mental imagery alone. Participant “T9” used the DKF to type out messages on a tablet PC. Nonstationarities, or changes to the statistical relationship between states and measurements that occur after model training, pose a significant challenge to effective filtering. In brain-computer interfaces, one common type of nonstationarity results from wonkiness or dropout of a single neuron. We show how a robust measurement model can be used within the DKF framework to effectively ignore large changes in the behavior of a single neuron. At BrainGate2, a successful online human neural decoding experiment validated this approach against the commonly-used Kalman filter.

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ProQuest Dissertations Publishing

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ISBN 13

9798664701937

Once Upon a River

Archaeology and Geology of the Bow River Valley at Calgary, Alberta, Canada

By: Michael Wilson

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Once Upon a River

Archaeology and Geology of the Bow River Valley at Calgary, Alberta, Canada

By: Michael Wilson

Late Quaternary geology and archaeology of the Bow River valley at Calgary, Alberta are considered in terms of archaeological visibility, defined as recognizability of any archaeological manifestations or patterns, in the field or laboratory.

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504

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University of Ottawa Press

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177282108X

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9781772821086

High Calling

The Journey of a Mountain Preacher

By: Michael Rouse

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High Calling

The Journey of a Mountain Preacher

By: Michael Rouse

Ronald Holland was a boisterous young man who worked in the logging camps and ran with a bunch of rowdies in the remote North Carolina mountains. It was the 1920s — the Prohibition era. But that didn't prevent Ronald and his pals from getting hold of all the liquor they wanted, which was a lot. Even after he married and his wife gave birth to a sickly daughter, Ronald devoted most of his spare time to frolicking with his gang of merry-makers. Then, a strange thing happened . . .

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1452031592

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Children of Armenia

A Forgotten Genocide and the Century-long Struggle for Justice

By: Michael Bobelian

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Children of Armenia

A Forgotten Genocide and the Century-long Struggle for Justice

By: Michael Bobelian

From 1915 to 1923, the Ottoman Empire drove the Armenians from their ancestral homeland and slaughtered 1.5 million of them in the process. While there was an initial global outcry and a movement led by Woodrow Wilson to aid the “starving Armenians,” the promises to hold the perpetrators accountable were never fulfilled. In this groundbreaking work, Michael Bobelian profiles the leading players—Armenian activists and assassins, Turkish diplomats, U.S. officials— each of whom played a significant role in furthering or opposing the century-long Armenian quest for justice in the face of Turkish denial of its crimes, and reveals the events that have conspired to eradicate the “forgotten Genocide” from the world’s memory.

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322

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Simon and Schuster

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1416558357

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9781416558354

Concise Encyclopedia of Mexico

By: Michael Werner

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Concise Encyclopedia of Mexico

By: Michael Werner

Concise Encyclopedia of Mexico includes approximately 250 articles on the people and topics most relevant to students seeking information about Mexico. Although the Concise version is a unique single-volume source of information on the entire sweep of Mexican history-pre-colonial, colonial, and moderns-it will emphasize events that affecting Mexico today, event students most need to understand.

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Routledge

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1135973776

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9781135973773

Book's by Michael A. Bryson

Ancient Laws

Ancient Laws

Visions of the Land

Visions of the Land

The Wiley Handbook of Eating Disorders

The Wiley Handbook of Eating Disorders

Work Stress

Work Stress

A Clinical Handbook in Adolescent Medicine

A Clinical Handbook in Adolescent Medicine

Great Smoky Mountains Folklife

Great Smoky Mountains Folklife

A Discriminative Approach to Bayesian Filtering with Applications to Human Neural Decoding

A Discriminative Approach to Bayesian Filtering with Applications to Human Neural Decoding

Once Upon a River

Once Upon a River

High Calling

High Calling

Children of Armenia

Children of Armenia

Concise Encyclopedia of Mexico

Concise Encyclopedia of Mexico

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